| Ed Halter | |
| Nationality: | American |
| Occupation: | curator, writer |
Ed Halter is a film programmer, writer, and founder of Light Industry, a microcinema in Brooklyn, New York. He currently teaches at Bard College, where he is Critic in Residence.[1]
His writing has been featured in Artforum, The Believer, Bookforum, Cinema Scope, frieze, Little Joe, Mousse, Rhizome, Triple Canopy, and Village Voice.[2] Halter is interested in the intersection of video games, digital media, and American experimental film.
His first book From Sun Tzu to Xbox was released in 2006.[3] He has edited the compilation Mass Effect: Art and the Internet in the Twenty First Century (2015), with Lauren Cornell. His edited volume From The Third Eye: The Evergreen Review Film Reader was published by Seven Stories Press in 2018; it is a compilation of essays from Evergreen Review which were published from 1950-1970.[4]
Halter has programmed and worked on various film festivals, particularly the New York Underground Film Festival, which ran from 1994 to 2008.[5] He currently helps run and program events at Light Industry.[6] Light Industry is an exhibition space for experimental film currently housed in Greenpoint, Brooklyn,[7] after moving several locations in and around Brooklyn.[8] Light Industry has the goal of creating a space for the curation and cultivation of a thriving, but fragmented art scene.[9]
In 2017, Halter was awarded the Carl & Marlynn Thoma Art Foundation's Arts Writing Awards in Digital Art as an emerging writer.[10]